On a Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery, graves of the fallen stretch in rows to the horizon. (Carol M. Highsmith/Library of Congress) By the Sunday before Memorial Day my father would ...

Monday, May 27 will mark the national holiday of Memorial Day. It is often observed by sales and merchandising or picnics, but it has a more somber tone which should be taken seriously. Memorial Day ...

Walking through Gettysburg National Military Park, it is difficult not to be overcome by emotion as you encounter monument after monument to the different battalions that fought in the 1863 three-day ...

Dozens of Fort McCoy community members gathered May 26 at McCoy’s Community Center for the 2022 Memorial Day Prayer Luncheon. The luncheon, organized by the Fort McCoy Religious Support Office, ...

Flags were flying high at America’s Last Patrol’s Memorial Day Ceremony on Saturday, May 26. The theme – to remember and pray this Memorial Day. Service men and women braved the heat to remember the ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) – Joining us this morning is Justin Driver with Forward Church. It is the Sunday before Memorial Day. How do you think churches should observe Memorial Day? Driver: Well, I’ll tell ...

Lubbockites and West Texans will join Americans across the nation this Memorial Day, May 26, to honor service men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. Several events marking ...

On this Memorial Day, fewer American troops are deployed in global combat zones than there have been in decades. But this is far from a time of peace. Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine, simmering ...

There were a handful of churches, a temple, a couple of schools, and upwards of 600 or so families, some of whose “boys” were shipping off to Viet Nam. It was the mid-1960s, in one of the farther-out ...

As a kid, as an unwilling accomplice, during these annual rituals there wasn’t much for me to do except find the shade of a nearby tree and listen with the bored disinterest of a designated witness to ...

Fort McCoy community members participate in the 2022 Memorial Day Prayer Luncheon on May 26, 2022, at McCoy’s Community Center at Fort McCoy, Wis. Reverend Laurie Graber and her husband Tom Graber ...